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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:23:12 -0400
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:9fa75d42.0304250437.38893d8c@posting.google.com...
> Where do you get this?  People in the industry adopt what
> they see succeeding.  It's a feedback loop -- if a pilot
> C project in a company succeeds wildly, everybody in the company
> wants to do C projects.  If this happens in many companies,
> C programmer demand goes up, salaries go up, more students
> learn C, then other managers have to use C because all
> college graduates know C...

People feed money into slot machines because they see people winning money;
however, although a very few win most lose.  People rarely notice all those
that lose money.

> So you are saying the Ada projects that succeeded were secret,
> and the ones that were not secret did not succeed?

You're trolling.  You have mischaracterize yet another argument.  This
raises the question why you even bother to write such obviously nonsensical
arguments.